Hopefully for Justin Verlander, Kate Upton is very turned on by ridiculously great pitching. Because the Houston Astros ace certainly did some of that against the New York Yankees Friday night, leading to an Astros win, 7-1.

The GIF above is Verlander's killer curve ball embarrassing Yankees slugger Todd Frazier. Slow motion is everything here; it reveals the fact Frazier had absolutely no idea what was coming at him. Here's another look.

The big Houston win drives the American League championship to game 7. The winner will face the National League champion Los Angeles Dodgers, a team that was almost unstoppable during the season, save for a slump of 16 losses near the end—which actually didn't hurt them at all, in the long run.